The Prosperitan manifesto

Laying down the political and cultural foundations upon which the goal for a free Astasia would be built upon. As well as how to get there.

Introduction

The introduction of the manifesto announces the authors and organisations supporting the pamphlet and expresses the vision of the Astasia to come. It speaks of a future without ruling lineages, without sable or lower nations. That Astasia belongs to all who call her home.  

The sickness of silver and the rod

An overview of the greatly unequal Astasian society and how it only benefits the privileged few. Expressing first the plight of slavery and spares no detail of the suffering, hardship and abuses caused by the institution upon the Greater Astasian realm was built. Next it expresses the downtrodden rural and urban poor of Astasia. Described as working for the scraps off the dragon's table. Classed as those of the sable nations so that they may feel superior to others, indoctrinated into false patriotism to be expended like cattle in fields and sent to die tyrannizing other nations. It finally condemns the ruling classes. Who honour the dragon on the national flag by hoarding the riches of the land and setting aflame those who would resist. They give the illusion of liberty and bounty to the people but take the lion's share of everything and indoctrinate the people to turn on each other. Finally it condemns the mercenaries of the rulers. People who willingly turn their backs on the underclasses to live a life of sycophancy at the behest of the rulers.  

The medicine of unity

Emphasis the unity of the people. Be they enslaved or otherwise, decrying the realms pseudo-intellectual racial and mantic supremacist laws as an abomination. The only way for the people to prosper is if the see themselves as one and act as one. A single body, a single mind, a single heart.  

The million knights

The avocation for violent popular uprising and the violent overthrow of the Astasian state and the extensive purge of the planter classes, government officials and collaborators, consisting of execution or exile. All plantations and exploitative industries will be destroyed so that the planters have nothing to return to. This extends to the overseas and extraveiler domains, purging them of Realm loyalists and rebuilt before they are given independence.  

Every hand a plough, every head a roof

Formats the restructuring of society and government after the revolution. Plantations are rebuilt into agricultural communities where former slaves and farmers tend the fields that feed the nation. Cities will be centres of production where the urban poor will be given work and those who cannot are looked after. People cannot enter government unless they have worked in a particular industry for a certain period and farmers and workmen vote on what they produce depending on circumstance and demand. Privilage and wealth are heavily policed in government positions and while citizens have the right to worship freely and under state protection, churches and temples will have no say official affairs. Above all the great goal is that every citizen in some way has food on their tables, a roof over their head, clothes on their back, fair pay and above all a purpose to serve the nation and to live as a citizen rather than a subject.

The founding documents of both the Tsaranese republic and the Commonwealth of free Auroran territories both utilise elements from this pamphlet in their founding documents. Especially in there abolition of slavery. The Prosperian republic of North Valnosk references the pamphlet many times in its founding charter.

The pamphlet is banned throughout the greater Astasian realm, as well as among its ideological allies. Those found in possession are arrested, interrogated and could face either up to thirty years in prison. Those caught circulating the pamphlet are sentenced to death.

The boo was penned by Mara grey and Eliot Cooper. Two freed Astasian slaves and ardent abolitionists who sought an end to the greater Astasian realm. They believed that those enslaved or downtrodden by the Astasian elite needed a cause to rally round, to have their beliefs categorized into a clear ideology totally contradictory to Astasian ideals. They called their political theory Prosperitanism

The pamphlet is the inspiration and ideological template of liberation groups and political organizations throughout all worlds. Especially in slave states. In a time so many can identify with it's revolutionary fervor and vision of the future the manifesto has imbeded itself in many minds.